Andrei Kurkov: ‘We needed a war to show that Ukraine is different from Russia’
10 February, 2025
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In this conversation held during Internazionale's festival in Ferrara (Italy), the acclaimed Ukrainian author and essayist talks about his experience as a Soviet-born, Russian-speaking novelist, the difference between Ukrainian and Russian literature and mentality, and the importance of language in the forced "russification" of Ukraine and the country's emancipation from the “Russian world”.
